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Serum concentrations of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor in complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Volume 11, numéro 1, March 2000

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Department of Internal Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. Heinz.Burgmann@AKH-Wien.ac.at

INTRODUCTION About 300-500 million people suffer from malaria annually, and 1.5-2.7 millions die [1, 2]. In view of the world-wide increases in the number of malaria cases associated with travel, malaria may well become more common in developed countries. The mortality rate for falciparum malaria in the United States is 4%. As well as effective antimalarial treatment, optimal supportive therapy might be of enormous importance. For bacterial [...]